an initiative by Kokum Design Trust supported by Mahindra Foundation
Environment, Health and Well Being, Product and Industrial Design
Samarth is a modular outdoor air purifier that uses a filter-less technology to capture PM particles, adapts to its environment and seamlessly blend with the chaos of India.
Written and Contributed by Abhinav Saxena
Craft, Health and Well Being, Product and Industrial Design
Earthen tunes address three problems with one design solution:
1. Farmers walking barefoot leading to long-term health problems.
2. The waste created by the disposal of footwear.
3. A sharp decline in the number of weavers involved in the wool craft.
Written and Contributed by Earthen Tunes
Craft, Culture, Product and Industrial Design
Pitoloi is a result of trying to create everyday utilitarian furniture pieces using the ancient craft. It is unique in typology, aesthetics and sensorial qualities.
Written and Contributed by Amiya Lab
Product and Industrial Design, Textile Innovation
‘Anuvad’ means translation. This project looks at creating a symbiotic relationship between traditional crafts and E-textile technology.
Written and Contributed by Chhail Khalsa
Clean Energy, Economy, Product and Industrial Design
Ujasiyu’, which means ‘light’ is sustainable and affordable lighting and natural ventilation innovation. It is initiated with the intention of improving the living environment and quality of life of the urban poor in slums & squatter settlements.
Written and Contributed by Footprints EARTH
Product and Industrial Design, Waste Management
Greensole refurbishes old footwear into comfortable slippers and donates them to people in need. They also provide skills to the underprivileged through skill centres and retail eco-friendly footwear.
Written and Contributed by Greensole
Clean Energy, Economy, Product and Industrial Design
Designed and developed by Bangalore-based design house Studio ABD, Tigoona (teen-guna or three times) is empowering street entrepreneurs who play a vital role in the Indian urban economy. The cart has solar-powered light and can carry heavy loads (up to 100 kg). It enables easy waste management, protection against sun and rain and is carefully designed for easy usage by both men and women street vendors.
Written and Contributed by Studio ABD
Craft, Culture, Product and Industrial Design
Design Museum Dharavi is an open format and since the start of the project wanted to inspire other people, adapting it and creating similar initiatives at other locations. The museum engages with local makers in new collaborations, exploring their creativity and designing new items together for public exhibitions. The showcased objects, proposals, strategies and models reflect the talent of local makers, craftsmen, designers, contractors and other professionals operating within Dharavi, and aim to open new creative directions and scenarios.
Written and Contributed by Design Musuem Dharavi
Product and Industrial Design, Waste Management
The project reuses and upcycles a retired public vehicle thus serving multiple ideas through a singular design process: 1. Upcycling and giving the buses a second-life; 2. Enabling the waste workers and citizens to segregate on-site, and 3. Creating a unique prototype that is extremely affordable to make.
Written and Contributed by Studio Matter
Clean Water and Sanitation, Health and Well Being, Product and Industrial Design
The ‘Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013’, recognises manual cleaning of sewers as a dehumanising practise arising from the continuing existence of insanitary latrines and a highly iniquitous caste system. Four young replaced manual scavengers with robots in manholes. They kept the technology simple so that anyone can operate the Bandicoot with a little training.
Written and Contributed by Genrobotic Innovations
Disability Rights, Product and Industrial Design
HAPACOOP is a holistic approach to provide motivation, training, information dissemination, technical assistance and providing a livelihood vocation to our disabled individuals to be able to make an honest living.
Written and Contributed by HAPACOOP
Disability Rights, Education, Product and Industrial Design
Braille literacy rates in India are at an abysmal low of less than 1%. It is this lack that Annie, Thinkerbell Labs’ innovation in Braille self-learning, hopes to change.
Written and Contributed by Thinkerbell Labs